Starfield over 13 million players, to add city maps, new ways to travel, and more in End of Year update

[IrishXbox]

@SteadyMercury

I do hope they eventually add an Elite Dangerous style travel system. When you’re in combat or actually piloting the ship it really feels like that was the original intent. My guess is it got focus grouped and too many people were scared away by it so they cut it. But it almost screams that it was a feature at some point.

Elder Scrolls is still by far my favourite of the three Bethesda RPG franchises… Fallout is a distant third. I think Starfield is far from perfect but I’m very excited to see what Bethesda can do with the feedback. People forget there’s Elder Scrolls games from back before it was popular on console and it took time to get from that to Skyrim.

Yeah, I agree. I love to be able to fly to a systems moon directly rather than seeing a ship landing screen. You can also count on Bethesda to continue to improve their games as time goes on

The game is totally wonderful now any improvements is just a bruice bonus

[Kals_Els]

@SteadyMercury

… The travel system I think they started with doesn’t have anything to do with slowly travelling through space. It’s basically just a point and shoot hyperspace style warp with the player maintaining control of the ship during that hidden loading screen and the possibility of a pirate interdiction or anomaly discovery. Starfield’s is a bit more menu heavy and less player involved but really similar, clearly very inspired by. You don’t need to populate space to make it work. And honestly the travel system is mostly there anyway. That’s probably why Bethesda is able to implement it in a first major patch instead of it taking much longer. I would agree that flying from Earth to Mars in some scale of real-time is boring and not useful.

Probably not, I have read there’s lore that has been found that makes it clear that Grav jumping is done to travel between planets in the same system as well. As ships don’t have FTL capabilities in real time, like how Hyperspace, Warp and Mass Effect fields work.

While we see our ship get a different animation to travel between planets, that’s likely only there to show a difference between where we’re traveling. As well as not show off the same animation everytime.

If Bethesda ever does add, real time FTL capabilities, it likely will have to do with using an artifact to slow down time to a crawl and allow our ships to travel at real time. So it would likely be regulated to a NG+ option.

[Kals_Els]

@IrishXbox

Yeah, I agree. I love to be able to fly to a systems moon directly rather than seeing a ship landing screen. You can also count on Bethesda to continue to improve their games as time goes on

The game is totally wonderful now any improvements is just a bruice bonus

I can’t see it happening, at least not while we have any sort of control over it, as Planets are their own instance. So it would just be hidden loading screen with a longer landing animation, which I prefer the current method because planets can have so many aliens running around that they can cause issues. These have happened for me: crashes, 10-20 second quick save freezes, actual freezes that need me to close the game and save corruption.

[IrishXbox]

@Kals_Els

I can’t see it happening, at least not while we have any sort of control over it, as Planets are their own instance. So it would just be hidden loading screen with a longer landing animation, which I prefer the current method because planets can have so many aliens running around that they can cause issues. These have happened for me: crashes, 10-20 second quick save freezes, actual freezes that need me to close the game and save corruption).

I can understand it for some of the huge systems, but really you should be able to fly from the Earth to our moon directly.

I hope the team can put it in or fix it in the sequel